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Chapter 1794 My Aunt is the Empress 1
"Miss, here are this month's accounts. Please take a look."

Because the Zhou family intended for the original owner to enter the palace, they began to cultivate the original owner's ability to manage the household affairs from a very young age, hoping that the original owner would become empress in the future and rule the entire palace with ease.

Although the original owner of this body does not have a steward yet, the Zhou family had entrusted him with managing his property when he was very young.

For ordinary young ladies, there might not be much property to manage. After all, they only receive a monthly allowance and some clothes and jewelry every quarter. Some families with poor conditions might not even receive a set of jewelry every quarter, and they might only be able to buy a set once a year. What's there to manage?

But the original body was different.

From a young age, the original owner of this body had various kinds of income every month. If she didn't keep accounts and manage them, it would definitely become a mess and a muddled account. Then one day, a servant, seeing that she couldn't figure anything out, would steal things without her even knowing.

Linlang took the account book handed to her by her personal maid, Qingcao, and glanced at it.

This is the account book for this month.

This month, today is the fourth day of the fifth lunar month, and before the Dragon Boat Festival on the fifth day of the fifth lunar month, the original owner has already received a lot of things.

For example, her maternal grandfather's mansion, the Duke of Zhenguo, sent the original owner a lot of food, supplies, gold and silver jewelry, clothes and ornaments, etc.

Her mother and her aunt, the Empress, also gave her holiday gifts, which were mostly gold, silver, jewelry, clothes, and ornaments.

You can just accept them; no return gift is needed.

Besides her maternal grandfather, mother, and aunt, she also received a lot of holiday gifts from people in the community.

Leaving aside the others, the mothers of the ten princes received a batch of gifts.

Who would dare not give her a gift? After all, everyone wanted to curry favor with her in order to gain the Zhou family's support and rise in status.

Since the princes were male, and men and women should not be too close, it was inappropriate to give gifts directly to the original owner of the body. Therefore, the gifts were all given by their mothers. Of course, some of the gifts were chosen by all ten princes, since there were some items that were not available in the palace. If the gifts had not been chosen by all ten princes, their mothers would not have been able to provide them.

Moreover, the gifts were all priceless treasures. After all, for a family like the Zhou family, sending cheap gifts would not only fail to please them, but would also make them wonder if they looked down on their daughter by sending such inexpensive items.

Because the gifts were all priceless treasures, Linlang estimated that the original owner of this body had already received gifts worth tens of thousands of taels in just a few days in May. And this was not her entire year's income. The income from just a few days was the most extravagant she had ever accumulated in all her travels. You know, in some worlds, it would take a long time to save up tens of thousands of taels.

Of course, it was only in the last two years that the original owner of this body grew up and received more and more gifts. After all, those princes wanted to marry her, so these ten families sent gifts, which is why there were so many things.

In those earlier years, the original owner was a child, and the princes had not yet made their move. Only the original owner's family sent things, and the original owner did not receive as much as they did.

Since it was a gift from the mothers of the ten princes, not from the ten princes themselves, the original owner of this body would generally not refuse it, after all, one cannot refuse a gift from an elder.

Linlang glanced at the ledger and, finding nothing wrong, handed it over to Qingcao.

The maids and nannies around the original owner were all chosen by the original owner's mother, the Duchess of Zhongguo. They were all shrewd and capable, so there were basically no problems with these account books.

Of course, the main reason was that the Duchess of Zhongguo would occasionally check the accounts for the original owner. Even if the servants around the original owner dared to deceive her, would they dare to deceive the Duchess of Zhongguo? So the accounts were all kept in perfect order. Qingcao took the account book and then said, "Miss, the First Prince has invited you to go shopping the day after tomorrow."

Linlang paused for a moment as she held up her teacup, then said, "I'm not interested, I'm not going."

Logically, she should have gotten to know this eldest prince better so she could devise a strategy to deal with him, but she was too lazy to deal with him, so she simply refused.

As the eldest of the ten princes, the eldest prince was naturally much older than the original owner of the body, by a full ten years.

He's already twenty-three and still not married. It's obvious he's only waiting this long to marry the original owner of this body; otherwise, he would have been married long ago.

It's estimated that all ten princes thought that marrying the original owner of the body would be the greatest help, so they all waited without getting married.

It's probably because of his age that the eldest prince already has someone he likes. After all, he's already twenty-three years old. It's impossible for him not to have someone he likes, especially since this is ancient times with a low life expectancy and people could get married at thirteen. It's impossible for a twenty-three-year-old not to have someone he likes.

However, the eldest prince was not stupid. He knew that he had a woman he liked and could not let the Zhou family know, lest he be unable to marry the Zhou family's daughter. So he naturally kept it a secret and settled her in a secluded manor outside his palace. He would only meet with his white moonlight in secret under the pretext of going hunting in the countryside.

The two even had a son born out of wedlock.

In modern times, that would be considered an older (compared to the original owner's age) married man with a son. Why would such a noble young girl like the original owner accompany such a scumbag shopping? Putting aside everything else, he should at least be a prince who doesn't have other women.

Well, if Linlang is going to make a selection, she'll start by choosing from these ten princes who doesn't have other women, because she's a germaphobe and doesn't want to share a man with other women.

If all these princes have had other women, then she doesn't plan to follow the original owner's script anymore; she'll follow her own story.

She doesn't need to worry about her original father wanting to marry her into the royal family; if she doesn't want to, there are plenty of ways to deal with it.

The original owner of this body was unable to break free from Zhou's father's control, but she is different from the original owner.

After hearing Linlang's words, Qingcao hesitated and said, "If Miss doesn't go, won't Master be unhappy?"

Master Zhou had instructed that the original owner of this body should get to know the princes better and see which one to choose. He was worried that if his young lady didn't go, the master would think she was disobedient and might scold her.

While sipping her tea, Linlang said casually, "I don't like going out with the First Prince, is that not allowed? Didn't Father say I could choose? So if I don't like the First Prince, I don't want to go out with him."

When Master Zhou said to let the original owner choose, it was actually because he himself was wavering and didn't know which side to choose. He was very comfortable being fawned over by the ten princes, but once he chose a side, things would be different. The other families would no longer fawn over him and would even attack him.

He enjoyed this feeling, so he deliberately didn't choose any side and left the decision of marriage to the original owner of the body. In fact, if he didn't like the person the original owner chose, it definitely wouldn't work.

Upon hearing Linlang's words, Qingcao was surprised and asked, "Miss, do you not want to choose the eldest prince anymore?"

Linlang said, "That's about right... But let's just say this in private, don't spread it around, lest the Crown Prince hears it and gets upset."